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At the port of embarkation Army officers established a "Christmas Box Hospital" for the repair of Christmas boxes received in the mails for shipment overseas to American soldiers in France. This photograph shows a pile of the damaged boxes awaiting inspection and repair. It was necessary to box anew about 11,000 christmas packages and many other packages were less seriously damaged in transit to the embarkation port. A total of 200,000 Christmas packages went to France from this country
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Committee on Public Information.
Group Title: Americans Soldiers, U.S.A., France.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 13
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Date
01/01/1918
Location
united states
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html
